The Waterman's Challenge is a family oriented,
grass roots, surf contest established to raise funds for the Cocoa
Beach surf museum. A
contest where camaraderie and the spirit of aloha is easy to spot and
the kids walk away with smiles. This year the Cocoa Beach Surfing
Museum added a paipo
divisionhonoring the memory of Chris (Tumak) Harazda.

Menehunes

Nose Styling

SUPs

Prizes!!!

Waterman's Challenge Luau on Saturday Night

Friends and Pineapples

Boards and Tiki Life

Surf Music

Leigh & Brett on Right

Aloha Dancers

The Boys at the Luau

Rod, Southern Boy, Brett and Paddleboard Racer

Sunday at the Waterman's ChallengeMany Kinds of Boards All Weekend Long

Paipo Expression Session

Time to go out...

...and catch a few

Jan Harazda

The Line-Up

Allison Kneeboarding

Stand-up Bodyboarder

It was a great time this morning! I had met
and ridden the waves with Tumak before but never met his wife, Janet,
or dksnap (Allison). There must have been another half-dozen people
that joined us out in the line-up for the "expression session" on a
variety of wave riding devices ranging from surf mats to a Romanosky
kneeboard, including the Tumak template balsa board and fiberglass
version now being made by Neilson. One of Eef's boards was on display,
too.